Angela Knight Steps Down

+1. Few people have had me shouting at the TV over the years, and she's one. The way she fillibustered live interviews was outrageous, and she always got away with it. I only saw her pwned once, it was beautiful, but too rare.

Exactly, you may have hated her but she was great at what she did. I'm not sure where you move up from defending bankers, PR for BP maybe?

things must be bad if a tory is turning down lavish economic rent for spouting bullsh@t. Could also impact the diversity targets the BBA have, maybe they can do a straight swap with Dame Shirley Porter

+1. Few people have had me shouting at the TV over the years, and she's one. The way she fillibustered live interviews was outrageous, and she always got away with it. I only saw her pwned once, it was beautiful, but too rare.

Thank goodness for the hard-working, independent-minded and skeptical community of financial journalists whose duty it is to keep us informed. Where would we be without them? Why, the world would make no sense at all...

zugzwang (n.) a situation where every possible move or decision is a bad one, or one that will result in damage or loss.

It's not a recovery, it's a relapse.

Economics. It's got numbers and equations and stuff... just like science!

BBA boss: I'm a human beingThe outgoing chief executive of the British Bankers' Association (BBA) has said she found it difficult not to take some of the criticism of the banks personally.

Angela Knight, who is to step down this summer after five years in the job, told the Today programme's Simon Jack that there have been "huge mistakes and nobody wants to... pretend they did not happen" throughout the banking crisis.

But she argued that there is a far broader argument to be had - the city has changed and the financial crisis has made a difference in the culture of the banking world.

Mrs Knight said that she had to provide a balance during all the criticism over the 2008 credit crunch.

"It has been difficult sometimes," she said "that so many people personalise it".

"It has been difficult sometimes," she said "that so many people personalise it".

Would that be the people who have been priced out of the market due to the stupid amounts being lent without checks, the ordinary employees of the banks who had been continually encouraged to buy shares, taxpayers who have seen vast amounts of cash poured into banks which promptly hand it out as bonuses, pensioners seeing returns on savings vanish...

She can complain about things being difficult when she is hanging upside down from a lamppost.

I guess Dave doesn't want a former Tory MP staying in post as the LIBOR fraud case rumbles on.

Might impact on his sale of £250,000 dinners.

"The problem with capitalism is that eventually you end up with everyone else's money" RK"We have now entered The Great Rebalancing 2007-20xx" - RK"Gold will go to $1000, Silver to $18" - RK August 2011QE £100bn and build 1m council homes - RKCarney announces the launch of Empire 2.0 - Rise of the Banksters Oct '13